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March 1, 2019- Tuesday was a great day for Lakewood Senior Citizens, Inc. (LSC) and CHN Housing Partners. Members from each organization, as well as numerous funders and partners, gathered at the historic Westerly Apartments to celebrate the completed renovations. Rob Curry and Kevin Nowak from CHN were joined by Curt Brosky and Donnald…

Cleveland, Feb. 4, 2019 – CHN Housing Partners announced today that Janet Reed-James has joined the organization as its new director of human resources. “We are thrilled to welcome Janet to CHN. She brings the passion and experience to help develop our next generation of leaders,” said CHN’s incoming Executive Director Kevin J. Nowak. Reed-James…

February 6, 2019 – On Saturday, February 2, 2019, CHN partnered with Enterprise Community Partners, KeyBank and St. Ignatius High School to hold the annual Super Refund Saturday. Volunteers from Key Bank, CHN Housing Partners, and other organizations prepared and filed tax returns for low to moderate income residents with special focus on identifying eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)…

CHN Housing Partners will hold a Public Meeting on November 14, 2018 at 6 to 7:30 PM at CHN Community Resource Center, 2999 Payne Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, on the following: Application to Cuyahoga County Department of Development for a $50,000 2019 Cuyahoga County Supplemental Grant for leverage funding to replace knob and tube wiring in…

KeyBank featured resident Anthony Pough and his home, Commons at West Village, one of our Housing First buildings, in a wonderful new video about the bank’s investment in our community. Housing First, is a collaboration of community organizations led by Enterprise Community Partners. CHN Housing Partners, EDEN, Inc., a nonprofit housing development agency, and Frontline…

A week following Rob Curry’s announcement that he will step down in June 2019, Michael Griffin, Board President of CHN Housing Partners, announced today that CHN’s Board has chosen Kevin J. Nowak as CHN’s next Executive Director. In a memo to stakeholders and staff, Griffin said: In light of Rob Curry’s recent decision to transition…

Longtime CHN Housing Partners Executive Director Rob Curry announced that he plans to step down effective June 30, 2019. In a memo to CHN’s stakeholders and staff, Curry said the following: “I have decided that now is the right time for CHN to transition to a new Executive Director. CHN’s Board will discuss this matter…

CHN Housing Partners has a new phone number and appointment system for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), the federally funded program that provides eligible Ohioans assistance with their home energy bills. Beginning Sept. 1, 2018, the new number will be (216) 350-8008. The expanded system has more lines and provides an option to make…

This week’s Crain’s Cleveland business wrote about our new project, McGregor Assisted Living—90 affordable and market-rate assisted living units on McGregor’s beautiful campus in East Cleveland. We are thrilled to partner with such a storied organization with deep expertise and a commitment to the highest standards in elderly care. Many thanks go to the funders…

In the past five years, CHN Housing Partners has achieved significant milestones. We developed our 6,000th affordable home in Greater Cleveland, celebrated the 1,000th new homeowner under our pioneering Lease Purchase Program, and began the final Housing First project with our partners to functionally end chronic homelessness in Cuyahoga County. Lastly, in late 2017 we…